Defining an organization’s cybersecurity risk is a team effort, as each department must strike a balance between risk mitigation and budgetary restraints. While an organization’s CISO focuses on cybersecurity, they depend on the C-suite to combine business operations and necessary security measures to find success.
CISOs should understand the enterprise’s potential risk from a broad, holistic view. To help consolidate this information, internal teams can estimate their individual threats in a collaborative process similar to large-scale risk management programs. Because cybersecurity risk level is a shared responsibility, it should not be determined by one team or individual.